Babushka lady
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The Babushka Lady is a nickname for an unknown woman who might have filmed the presidential motorcade during the John F. Kennedy assassination. She was called the Babushka Lady by investigators because she wore a scarf similar to a Russian babushka. She appeared to be filming with something like an amateur movie camera.
She was in turn filmed by others, proving her presence on the square (such as this photograph (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/muchmore.jpg)), but it is not positively known who she was and why she was filming the president, though many onlookers with cameras were in Dealey Plaza that day.
She never came forward. Police and FBI did not find her, and the film shot from her position never turned up.
In 1970, a woman called Beverly Oliver came forward and claimed to be the Babushka Lady. Though she released a memoir chronicling the events of the day of Kennedy's assassination, she has not been able to provide convincing proof she was there. Oliver says her film was taken by an unidentified agent who promised to return it. Critics have noted a number of inconsistencies with her story, such as her use of a type of camera which did not exist in 1963.
External links
- Is Beverly Oliver the "Babushka Lady"? (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/oliver.htm)
- The JFK 100: 100 Errors in Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone's Assassination Movie: Beverly Oliver (http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100bev.html)